Malaysia being an Islamic country, I knew that drinking wasn’t going to be easy especially for anything harder than beer.
I had the foresight (?) to stop at the Duty Free on Arrival Shop upon my arrival in Kuala Lumpur so that I would not feel frustrated upon checking in at my hotel well past 10 pm on the first day.
At lunch the next day, went to a Nyonya restaurant (Buddhist rather than Islamic) so this was not difficult to get.
I was offered a “welcome drink” by the hotel so went up to the top floor lounge only to find out that the “drink” was a fruit juice.
At dinner time, I was not hungry and decided to stay in although I went out in search of a liquor store which is non-existent in Malacca. Found a bar in the bldg adjacent to the hotel and asked if I could take away whatever I did not finish drinking in the bar if I ordered a bottle of wine. They told me if I just bought the bottle and took it away, it was 30% off the bar price. Ha!
The following day, I took a long walk to a northern part of the city to see a church and a museum. By the time I was done looking around, was quite exhausted from the heat and decided a visit to this hotel bar would do me good.
And in the afternoon after lunch, I stopped by a Seven-Eleven wondering if they sold any alcohol as in Japan and they did!
Well obviously…
And the Portuguese-Malay restaurant had wine and it was the reason I went to eat there.
On the final day after lunch (or two lunches actually as I had satays and duck noodles – more on the noodles later), stopped by a hotel bar to feel refreshed.
And finally as I was leaving the country from KLIA, the Malaysia Airlines lounge offered drinks but they do not make it as easy as the Japanese or the French!
